What are marker pens made of?
Marker pens take plastic, polyester and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 29 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
How marker pens are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Natural gas through plastic
- Water through ink
- Crude oil through plastic, propylene
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Air through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Rock salt through ink, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Limestone through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 26 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 20
NaphthaEthylenePropyleneCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolHydrogenPara-xyleneEthylene glycolHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidCarbon dioxideBenzeneMethanolToluene